Word: reportedly
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...boost, retroactive to January, for more than 1,000,000 federal civil servants. Added annual cost: $542 million. <1 By a 12-1 margin, the Senate Labor Committee approved Jack Kennedy's labor-reform bill requiring unions to hold secret ballot elections at least once every five years, report to the Government on where the money comes from and goes. Kennedy managed to draft a bill that was both 1) hard-knuckled enough to win the indispensable endorsement of Arkansas' labor-investigating John Mc-Clellan, and 2) so kid-gloved that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. does not plan...
JOBS UP, frontpaged the Cleveland Press. IDLE DOWN, headlined the Washington Daily News. What they had to report was not so much a rise and a fall as a direction: for the first time since the economy's sag set in nearly a year ago, the U.S. Government was able to report last week that unemployment had dropped at more than the usual seasonal rate. In a joint release, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced a May unemployment total of 4,904,000, down 216.-000 from April. The unemployment percentage shrank from 7.5% of the labor force...
High schools in New York, New England, and California have embarked on elaborate programs along this line. It is significant that these are the states, according to U.S. News and World Report, which produce the best qualified students for college...
...Houses continued to remain a popular subject of discussion, especially when Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, first Master of Lowell, resigned from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward Society because of the "pressure of his new responsibilities." President Lowell's annual report, generating even greater interest, discussed the possibilities of moving freshmen from the river to the Yard as upperclassmen moved into the Houses, and Yale, which had once sent Edward Harkness and his money away, finally relented and accepted his grant for the Quadrangle System...
Since President Pusey's special report to the Board of Overseers in October, 1956, the Program has come a long way. Eighteen months ago the President expressed the "need for a special program for Harvard College." And so began the most extensive fund-raising campaign in educational history. Today, almost two years later, many of the Program's objectives have been guaranteed...